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Child models frighten Fash Mob: Burberry’s new childrenswear ads

There is something about photoshopped, happy, smiling children that frightens me. Surely children should be dirty (especially if on the beach) and in the midst of either building a sandcastle or eating a sandwich full of sand – not hugging …

Rosemary Mac Cabe

rmaccabe

Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 14:53

There is something about photoshopped, happy, smiling children that frightens me. Surely children should be dirty (especially if on the beach) and in the midst of either building a sandcastle or eating a sandwich full of sand – not hugging like little supermodels while wearing Burberry jackets. I like my kid pictures to be either ridiculously cute or ridiculously funny or – shock suggestion – both. I don’t really want my kid pictures to be . . . (prepares for onslaught of abuse) . . . attractive. Am I alone?!

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